Homeschooling Downunder
Home Education Resources
for Australia and New Zealand
that save you time, money and stress.
Australian Notebooking and History Pages.
Australian History Notebook by Anita, Renee and Sarah Lynch
Notebooking is an excellent way to record your Australian history. Instead of being limited to a dull textbook your child can creatively express their knowledge in a notebook.
These pages have been created to enhance your study of Australian History. They have been designed by an Australian homeschooling family who have discovered the joys of Notebooking.
"As a Mum trying this new idea in my home, I was amazed to see my children eager to engage their creativity and make each page something special. School was becoming fun and they would look forward to adding new pages to their growing Notebook. Further, I noted my children would often flick back through their work and re-read pages, thus reinforcing and reviewing the information written. Notebooking has proved its worth." Anita Lynch
Your Notebooking style is limited only by your imagination. There is no right or wrong way to do it.
Australian History Book Package Deal
For your convenience we have packaged Our Sunburnt Country and Australian History Notebook ebook.
Purchase the set together to recieve your discount.
Australian History Notebook is an ebook. It will be available for instant dowload after you purchase
Review
I was really discouraged because my daughter who writes beautifully was in tears every time she realised we were going to write! We read lots of great literature and I know that my children are learning along the way and they were narrating beautifully- but I really felt that we needed something else to just "round off" our learning experiences and there is only so much one can do without writing!
At the time of both dilemmas, we were covering Australian History and Downunderlit made this fabulous Australian History Notebook available! I ordered the set and printed off a few pages ready for our next lesson.
I explained that instead of orally narrating, I had printed some special themed pages that we were going to use to record our journey through Australian history and that they could write anything that they found interesting or meaningful to them from the days reading.
We had no sooner finished that mornings reading selections when my daughter disappeared and returned with a brimming smile and two full pages of writing and wanted to know if we could do another lesson! Not only were we now all enjoying the process, but both my children are creating beautiful keepsakes and they are learning along the way!
If you are covering Australian History at all then this resource comes highly recommended! There are over 100 pages and there is such a great variety! Map outlines, pictures, crosswords, lots of different page layouts and I have to tell you that we have yet to cover something in our reading that I haven't found a page to use to record the event! Lots of thought, planning and research has gone into putting these pages together and its a real timesaver too- because all I have to do is print and go!
Eloise From Fun Learning For Children
Suggestions to help you get started:
• On some of the pages you will find a blank shape. These shapes are for you to add in your own pictures and/or drawings. You may find pictures in old travel magazines, old history books you are happy to cut up, stickers, or even the internet. Alternatively, your child may like to draw or trace pictures in the spaces and colour them in. The pictures we have used are all in the Public Domain and are copyright free, to the best of our knowledge.
• There is often a title or border that can be coloured in as well. Add whatever you think will help your child to enjoy the process and be satisfied with their results.
Versatile and practical,these pages can be used with any Australian history curriculum.
We recommend using them from grades 4-12.
Bonus resource Sunburnt Notes ebook. 15 notebook pages that correspond with the chapters from the book, "Our Sunburnt Country" by Arthur Baillie
Here are some sample pages from the Australian History Notebook.
